By an act dated A.D. 1494, Sept. 6, and lately
transmitted from the archives of the Capitol to the royal
library of Paris, the despot Andrew Paleologus, reserving
the Morea, and stipulating some prlvate advantages, conveys
to Charles VIII. king of France the empires of
Constantinople and Trebizond (Spondanus, A.D. 1495, No. 2).
M. de Foncemagne (Mem. de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.
xvii. p. 539-578) has bestowed a dissertation on this
national title, of which he had obtained a copy from Rome.